Kipper image upload and edit

This morning, pending a few last-minute tests, Kipper gets post editing and image upload functions.

Kipper can upload files to your website, regardless of whether you are operating it on your website, or from your desktop. After uploading the image, you can click to include it in a new post in the editor.

One poser for me was figuring out where to have Kipper upload the files. So that Kipper isn't running amok throughout the entire site, it seems like it makes sense to simply look for an image folder within the final pages directory. That way, when you post, you know that your images will always lead to something like images/newpix.jpg, instead of constantly backtracking to upper level folders.

So when you click the "image upload" option, you are presented with a dropdown of all the folders that Kipper finds within the pages directory, including the top-level pages directory itself. This might be too limiting for some users, but it's the best way I could figure out to keep things sensible and manageable.

The editor is, your choice, a feature-filled TinyMCE word processor or plain text. In fact, since TinyMCE is so large compared to Kipper itself, I will probably have to direct users to download TinyMCE directly from the TinyMCE website. However, Kipper will function just fine without it.

I still prefer the plain text editor, myself. I figure I'm in the minority, though, so Kipper pulls up the TinyMCE word processor by default, as long as it's there. A click switches the editor to text.

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